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secondly, on the necessity to prepare and carry out simultaneously both the abolition of monetary taxes and the transformation of the prodrazverstka into a natural tax;

§ 2. 2) Instruct the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs to appeal to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee with a request to demand from all local executive committees information and materials for the Congress of Soviets on all questions touched upon in § 1.

§ 3. 3) Instruct the People's Commissariat of Finance to submit to the Council of People's Commissars a draft resolution of the SNK on the questions indicated in § 1, depending on the decision of the commission.

ON THE REORGANIZATION OF NARKOMPROS

DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE CC
November 1920

Postpone the reorganization of the People's Commissariat of Education as a whole, subjecting the question to more careful discussion.

Immediately implement the following measure:

1) Create the position of Deputy People's Commissar, entrusting him with complete direction of all administrative work and subordinating to him in this respect all sectors and departments of the Commissariat,

2) appoint Comrade Litkens to this position, introducing him into the collegium of Narkompros and entrusting him not to abandon his work in the Chief Committee for Political Education, but to devote no less than half of his working hours to it, and immediately obligate the Chief Committee for Political Education to find and introduce Litkens's deputy in that committee.

3) Instruct Comrade Litkens to prepare a draft of a precise instruction on the functions and rights of the Deputy People's Commissar.

LETTER TO A. V. LUNACHARSKY
29 November 1920

Comrade Lunacharsky! We had a detailed discussion yesterday with Comrade Litkens. In my opinion, his and Comrade Solovyev's projects are artificial. The CC will decide, of course. My preliminary considerations are as follows:

1) Create the position of Deputy People's Commissar, transferring all administration to him.

2) Transform the "Organizational Sector" into an "Organizational Centre" (with a head who is a member of the collegium). This centre directs the administrative, organizational, supply and similar aspects of all sectors.

3) Abolish Glavprofobr, merging it with the second-level school, on condition that (a) general educational and political subjects be expanded in second-level schools and (ß) the transition from vocational-technical education to polytechnical education be ensured insofar as possible.

4) Invigorate and organize the "Gus" (State Academic Council) as an organ for discussing all scholarly-pedagogical questions. (Composition = all collegium members + the best specialists, even if bourgeois).

5) Create the following sectors: (1) preschool, (2) first-level school, (3) second-level school (= Glavprofobr), (4) extracurricular (= Chief Committee for Political Education), (5) higher school, (6) artistic.

6) Retain the Artistic Sector as a single sector, placing "political commissars" from communists in all central and directing institutions of this sector.

Lenin

NOTES ON MEMORANDA FROM THE LIBRARIAN
November 1920

Vladimir Ilyich,

Please be so kind as to write to me about the following:

1) What should be done with newspapers from Tiflis? Yes.

2) Do you need books published in Tiflis (I am enclosing a list).

3) A comrade brought a complete set of the guardsman journal "L'Europe nouvelle". Paris. If you are interested, it is possible to obtain it.

Librarian Sh. Manucharyantz

* To the editorial office of Pravda for transmission to the Narkompros Department of White Literature.

* "New Europe". Paris.